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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 | Food and Beverage |
As a staple of life our need to eat has developed from a basic
form of simply feeding our bodies with the fuel it requires, to
a complicated art of presentation and taste combined with our
intrinsic need to experiment with everything we see, touch,
smell and of course taste.
The ever-increasing divergence of foods that is now available to
us at our local stores and eating-places only help to confuse
and tantalise us into new culinary experiments and delights.
From the sandwich shop to the ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 | Food and Beverage |
To save on food, be an opportunist. Buy what you like, but buy
on sale. Do you need oranges every day? Buy them when they're
cheap, then buy grapefruit or orange juice when it's on sale.
Opportunism is the key to low-cost living in general. You get
everything you like, and lots of variety, because everything
goes on sale once in a while. Here are ten more ways to get
cheap food.
1. Stock up during sales. We recently bought 20 or 30 cans of
tomato paste on sale for 10 cents per can. That's ...
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 | Food and Beverage |
With our twin boys getting ready to start solid food, I have
been reading about making and freezing my own baby food. It is
very easy!
You can make up large quantities of baby meals and freeze them
for later use.
Green beans are in season and were on sale at the grocery store,
so I bought several pounds to prepare and freeze. I steamed them
in an electric steamer for about 20 minutes and then blended
them in the blender with some water until they were pureed. I
then poured the puree into ice ...
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 | Food and Beverage |
Now let's take a look a the basic food elements in your perfect
dietary plan; fruits and vegetables group, bread, cereals, rice
and past groups, meats and beans group and dairy group. Each has
different characteristics or helpful nutritional value for your
dietary needs.
Fruits and Vegetables ' Fruits have very little if any protein
and fat. Instead, they have carbohydrates, generally fruit sugar
or fructose and glucose. As Florida commercials tend to
announce, fruits offer us vitamins, C and ...
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